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Barbary

a historic name for a region of N Africa extending from W Egypt to the Atlantic and including the former Barbary States of Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco
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This book follows Intrepid Sailors: The Legacy of PrebleAEs Boys and the Tripoli Campaign, which left off where To The Walls of Derne picks up in the story of AmericaAEs first overseas conflict, the war with Tripoli and the Barbary pirates.
To the Walls of Derne: William Eaton, the Tripoli Coup, and the End of the First Barbary War
Barbary, of Walesbeech, Crawley, and Maynard, of New England Road, Haywards Heath, were today beginning jail sentences totalling 28 years.
Gun runners who brought weapons into city are jailed
Barbary, 29, of Crawley, got 12 years at Lewes crown court and Maynard, 30, of Haywards Heath, 16 years, two months.
28 years' jail for smuggling Nazi handgun into Britain
Barbary Barbary macaques were macaques were believed to have been introduced from Africa in the 18th century by British soldiers.
BURBERRY APES; YOU COULDN'T MACAQUE IT UP.. 30 ned monkeys deported to Scotland (relax, UKIP, they are all going to Blair Drummond Safari Park)
This is a detailed, synthetic account of the Barbary corsairs who rose from a minor Mediterranean nuisance to become a major maritime menace.
Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs
Monkey business: Visit Gibraltar's Barbary Macaques on a day trip to the island
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BETWEEN the early 16th and late 18th centuries historians estimate there were 1,250,000 white slaves shipped to North Africa's Barbary Coast.
Was race just an excuse to make big profits? Over the last four weeks, Wales has marked Black History Month with a series of events. As it ends, Darren Devine reports on a debate between historians on the motivation for the slave trade
The Barbary figs of the title first appear as symbols of a high Algerian civilization: they feature on the coat of arms of Si Mustafa, Omar's grandfather, and on his office shelves, beside trophies he has won as a successful breeder of horses.
Rashid Boudjedra. The Barbary Figs
STAFF needed a helping hand to install a giant rock in the Barbary sheep enclosure at Dudley Zoo.
Zoo staff dig moving huge rock
They'll be able to arrange their day in the company of 140 Barbary macaques who roam Trentham's Monkey Forest.
Go ape on Valentine's Day date!
After the lackluster response to his second novel, Barbary Shore (1951), Mailer risked his reputation by writing a book so obscene in the eyes of his publisher, Rinehart, that it was unceremoniously rejected; it eventually found a home with Putnam.
The Deer Park (1955)
Within the sea services, allusion to the Barbary pirates and the "shores of Tripoli" continues to resonate.
Murphy, Martin N. Somalia, the New Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa

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